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downcast, some flowers in her hands, he with his face turned toward her,

a rapt look in his eyes, his hands, folded behind his back, twitching

nervously They turned full face to Drake as he stood watching them, and

he saw her distinctly It seenized her last night, that he had not guessed that the young

engineer was Dick The blood rushed to his face, then left it pale, and

he stood, unseen by thes on the past, all his thoughts and dreaed or married had never occurred to him

He had always pictured her as still "Nell of Shorne Mills," living at

The Cottage as she had done when she and he were lovers

And it was she--she, Nell!--to whoed! A wave of

bitterness swept over hihed aloud

He had been sighing for her, longing for her, feeding his soul on his

otten him,

but had learned to love another h a mist, too

overwhelmed to move; but presently he saw Nell look up with tears in her

eyes, and hold out her hand slowly, timidly